Evaluating 2024 Euro Cup and COPA America Cup Jersey Color Accessibility
Blog post from Roboflow
Around 30 million people tuned in to watch the 2024 Euro Cup and COPA America Cup finals, highlighting the global appeal of football. The event also raised the issue of jersey color accessibility for visually impaired fans, prompting the use of Roboflow's computer vision tools to assess the contrast between jersey colors and numbers according to WCAG 2.1 guidelines. The process involves gathering video data, annotating jersey images, training a model to recognize jerseys, using clustering to identify colors, and checking color contrast compliance with Python libraries. The analysis revealed that the jerseys of Team Spain and Team Argentina did not meet the WCAG2.1 color contrast requirements, underscoring the potential for technological advancements like Roboflow to enhance accessibility in sports broadcasting.